This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Friday, March 21, 2014

Badge of the Day #91 (Dunaújvárosi Kohász)

A recent addition to the collection, representing Dunaújvárosi
Kohász SE, the name from 1961 – 90 of a club that, in common with many
Hungarian ones, went through numerous changes of nomenclature (& prior to
1961, the new, postwar Socialist industrial city of Dunaújváros had itself originally
been known as Sztálinváros, as was the football club during this time) until financially-collapsed dissolution in
2009 (less than 10 years previously, in the season that bestrode the change of
millennia, they had, as Dunaferr, been crowned league champions, before going
bust & being reborn for the first time as early as 2004, making for two
swift & terrible declines, the second alas terminal).

Thus this object of a certain vintage could be said to have
something of a hauntological aspect to it, as manifestation of a ghost, a
surviving relic of both one of the identities of the defunct club &, more
generally, the period of Communist Hungary, being a product of such.

In terms of design, the badge is an interesting &
different shape, a tiny shield in nature, with the crest proudly flying the flag
for the bold ‘dk’ SE, now a memorial to the departed.